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Unrest and official notices amid Atlantic and Parliament talks
An excerpted report blends shipboard outbreaks and precautionary measures by Custom House officers on a Dutch ship at Spithead with dispatches from London. It notes Lord Mansfield declined Speaker duties, France-Spain tensions, possible Parliament adjournments, and calls for naval and militia movements as signaled by various royal and municipal actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geary
Yffemonden
Dmirah
Altotia
de’ Ak Niffer
Loudor
Baron
de. Sporke
Mediterranean
Alg Riers
Spain
France
Earl of Harcourt
Calais
Duke de Choiseul
Lord Mansfield
House of Péers
Paris
Mr. Seldon
Westminster-hall
Gondimer
Sawbridge
Othey
Massachefer’s Bay
North
Europe
Guildhall
Rockingham
Femple
Ford
Pyle
Inérpofed
Shrewsbury
Furgeon
Albemarle-street
Solander
British Museum
Phillippine Islands
William Byars
Tartington
Sussex
Serjeant
Glynn
Court of Common- Pleas
Horne
John Sheals
Newgate
Admiralty
Allen M‘coy
High Seas
Earl Waldegrave
Navertoke
Essex
Randal
John A’ Great
St. George’s Fields
Jordan
Aldersgate-street
Archibald
Montgomery
Earl of
Lord Vicount
Miffintown
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